I just want to add that no one should ever shop at Menard’s for any reason if they have any other viable alternative whatsoever. John Menard is a stone-cold ultraconservative asshole and one of the cheapest pieces of shit ever to stain this country. Richest guy in the state and pays his employees starvation wages…

“Take your ill-behaved, red-headed brats and go back to Ireland.”

That, right there, is who we should all be striving to be. Don’t let this shit slide, don’t tell yourself it doesn’t matter or that it isn’t your fight; this is all our fight, and it always fucking matters.

“No matter what the issue is, it shouldn’t be a race issue, you piece of shit,” said the unidentified shopper who came to Castillo’s defense. “You really think it’s appropriate for someone your age to say some shit like that?”

“...when they returned home he told them what he had done. The following morning his parents contacted police.”

And a lot of bullies HAVE been snatched and slammed against the wall. That’s one of the reasons kids become violent and cruel to begin with.

You’re imagining just one small sliver of what bullying is like. It’s not just getting a black eye and having your lunch money taken. It’s rumors and insinuations and lies. It’s taunts from groups of kids on the bus. It’s having your books knocked off your desk as people walk by. It’s racial, ethnic, and sexual…

First of all, this story is horrific, and my heart is breaking for everyone involved. I can barely process that this is true 10 minutes after reading it.

That’s why he likes his girls young.

Whites EAT this shit up, that’s how you know it’s absolute coonery.

“Why do white people want to use the word so bad?”

God that ad was such vapid bullshit.

I truly HATE this video. As I have shared with friends, this video at best is trash and at worst further perpetuates negative stereotypes about black folks. This video is not thought-provoking whatsoever. Furthermore the video seems to “humanize” racists. From the beginning, the white guy with the MAGA hat seems to…

Oh great, it’s an extended version of that f*cking Heineken ad that all of my co-workers loved so much.

The saddest part of it all is when our own people make this flawed neutral stance to white supremacy it just sets us back, it doesn’t move them forward.

“Whites EAT this shit up, that’s how you know it’s absolute coonery”

Pure, ‘both sides’ bullshit. It is not up to the oppressed to dismantle racism. It never has been, it never will be.

This. Someone sent me the video today, and my first thought was that he was “bothsidesing” the whole issue. I loved the concept, and the filming and opening which pull you in was pretty brilliant. But the drawing of the moral equivalency is just too distracting to be ignored.

I don’t think too many people really appreciate how much skill and initiative is required to survive as a rootless/homeless person. Thinking you can just hit the road and survive on odd jobs indefinitely is how you end up in situations like this.

We keep proving over and over again that we cannot build our way out of congestion. Atlanta is the biggest example I am aware of. They spent hundreds of millions to build ‘future-proof’ highways a short time ago & they are congested & deadly as ever today. If you build it they will drive.